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Dancing the fairy tale : producing and performing The Sleeping Beauty Creators: Laura Katz Rizzo (author) Call No.:English 792.82 KAT -[ART] Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2015 Summary: In Dancing the Fairy Tale , Laura Katz Rizzo claims that The Sleeping Beauty is both a metaphor for ballet itself, and a powerful case study for examining ballet and its production and performance. Using Marius Petipa and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s classical dance-specifically as it was staged in Philadelphia over nearly 70 years-Katz Rizzo looks at the gendered nature of women staging, coaching, and reanimating this magnificent ballet, and well as the ongoing push-pull between tradition and innovation within the art form. Using extensive archival research, dance analysis, and American feminist theory, Dancing the Fairy Tale places women at the center of a historical narrative ...